Emerging Technologies
Quandl Adds Sharadar Fundamentals to Financial Data Search Engine
Startup fundamental data supplier will provide comparable data at lower cost for Quandl users, officials say.
Tyler Capital Taps Donnan as CTO
He leaves after four years at Barclays.
Wall Street Horizon Appoints Fador President and CCO
Woburn, Mass.-based corporate earnings and event data provider Wall Street Horizon has appointed Bruce Fador president and chief commercial officer, responsible for managing the vendor's single-stock event calendar dataset and helping customers better…
Banks May Face Kodak Moment if Digital Revolution is Ignored
Traditional banks could be facing severe challenges if they cannot adapt to the growing power of the fintech start-up community, and harness emerging technologies, senior executives from leading banks have argued.
McObject, Lucera Offer eXtremeDB Database in Cloud
Federal Way, Wash.-based in-memory database provider McObject will make its high-performance eXtremeDB Financial Edition database available on an as-a-service basis in the cloud to clients of New York-based high-performance infrastructure provider Lucera…
Microsoft Azure Suffers Interruption
For the second time in less than four months Microsoft's cloud-computing platform falters.
Newedge Adds to Capital Introduction & Advisory Teams
Brokerage firm Newedge, which is owned by Societe Generale, has announced three new hires.
OTAS Tech Enhances Portfolio Management Functionality, Looks to EMS Space & Sell Side for 2015
OTAS will also roll out out a new natural-language generation engine
OTAS Technologies Previews Move into Sell-Side and EMS Spaces, Preps OTAS Views
OTAS will also roll out out a new natural-language generation engine
Icap Bows End-of-Day Equity Derivatives Pricing Curves
Service will provide investment managers with valuation tools to conduct portfolio analysis and hedge risk.
Deutsche Börse to Disseminate African Bond Indexes, Pricing
Data will cover indexes and pricing from 12 African countries.
EDM Council Names Chairman
Organization Revises Data Model
Ashworth to Serve as Caplin CEO
Former CEO and founder Paul Caplin will remain on Board as an executive chairman.
AxiomSL Hires Asia-Pacific CFO/COO
Tse To Lead Growth in Region
Big Data Analytics Vendor VoltDB Hires Ex-HP, Vertica, Greenplum Exec
VoltDB, a Big Data analytics and database vendor co-founded by StreamBase and Vertica founder Michael Stonebraker, has hired Shyam Sundar as head of sales for Asia Pacific, to expand the vendor's presence in the region.
Lucena Incorporates AirSage Cell Phone Data into Predictive Analytics
Vendor uses consumer mobile location data to predict store fortunes and share prices
Caplin Steps Aside, Promotes COO Ashworth to CEO
Data industry icon Paul Caplin becomes chairman, veteran executive Ashworth takes reins.
Opening Cross: In Search of Data’s ‘Perfect Harmony’
Against the often-discordant melody of the financial markets, it’s good to know that there’s always a harmony playing in the background to support that melody, hold everything together, and ensure we’re all singing from the same songbook, rather than…
Chi-X Australia Hires NuPont's Lampropoulos for Market Data
Industry vet's resume includes Chi-X, Alpha Exchange, StatPro, Reuters, Macquarie, Bankers Trust and Pont
Chi-X Oz Appoints New Head of Market Ops
Jamie Crank moves to head of product, while Chris Lampropoulos heads up firm's market data business.
Quaternion-UBS Delta Collaborate on CVA Front
Quaternion-UBS Delta alliance will help clients calculate CVA and DVA measures.
S&P Cap IQ Adds Moody's Ratings to XpressFeed
Moody's is first set of ratings from other agencies that S&P plans to add in the future.
Corvil Embeds Kx Database for Performance Stats Storage
Dublin-based latency management technology vendor Corvil has added connectivity to Palo Alto-based time-series database provider Kx Systems' kdb+ database to its streaming analytics platform, to enable users to store real-time network and application…
Deutsche Börse Adds Cleartrade Data to CEF Feed
Data alliance will make it easier for traders and vendors to connect to Cleartrade data